Gindalbie is an
abandoned
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Common uses
* Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded
* Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property
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town in the
Goldfields-Esperance region of
Western Australia. It is situated between
Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...
and
Laverton along the Donkey Rocks Road.
The town's name is
Aboriginal
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*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
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in origin and is the local name for the area. The town was gazetted on 9 September 1903.
[''Western Australian Government Gazette'', file 7350/97, 9 September 1903, p. 2559.] While in planning, the name of Vosperton was proposed in honour of the editor of the ''
Coolgardie Miner'',
Frederick Vosper, who became the MLA for
North-East Coolgardie in 1897. The planned boundaries and area of the town were changed in 1900.
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Ghost towns in Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance